Growth will be derailed if we don’t sort out public transport network

What’s planned and funded won’t catch up on, let alone pass out, what’s coming, writes Gerard Howlin

On the day after budget day, Transport Minister Shane Ross told the Dáil he had a three-point plan, and the first of these was “to keep our cities and towns moving”. In fact, no such plan exists.

There are certainly myriad initiatives and they are welcome; things will rapidly become worse if they are not implemented.